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I've been battling this clear to cloudy greenish pool for about 2 years thinking it was an algae problem. SLAMing about every 2-3 months with some clearing but then it comes back. I have staining of the pool steps and liner and tried ascorbic acid on stains and they cleared right up. Im thinking...

Help! I tried posting this in a pool maintenance Facebook group about 10 hours ago, but it still hasn’t been approved, so I’m asking you guys. We had our pool covered for about 5 days because the weather got crummy and we had torrential downpours. I also didn’t feel well so I didn’t go out to...

My Pentair Quad DE 60 Pool Filter keeps clogging up. We've had to travel numerous times and always come back to a green pool. This spring has been bad. I've backwashed very frequently and pushed the Hayward Salt Water Generator (AquaRite 900) up to super chlorinate, but still ends up green...

As I have the past few years, I started seeing stains from the returns on the liner as temps come up. In the past three years I’ve just bought a bottle of vitamin C and stuffed them in a sponge that had a slit cut into it. This year I bought a bottle of powdered ascorbic acid. Following the...

FC: 12 CC: 0 CYA: 45 PH: 7.8 TA: 100 Hardness: 125 Above ground pool, ~6900 gallons 14 inch Intex Sand Filter I used a TF-100 test kit My pool is green and has some sandy-like yellow debris at the bottom (I believe to be mustard algae). I have read the SLAM process and have been maintaining a...

We can clear the pool up and keep it that way for about a week making sure the chlorine stays at the right level and all but then it will go green. Any advice?

Hello from south Alabama. We bought a house in the fall with a pool and I can’t figure this thing out. I found this forum a few weeks ago after a 4 inch rain turned my pool from clear to cloudy and green overnight. I ordered a TF100 and started using liquid chlorine (10%) and brushing daily...

Hello! We have just bought a house and along with it, a 27,000 gallon saltwater pool with a vinyl liner. We are brand new to pools in general so any and all information is appreciated. Our pool is dark green and we have been vacuuming and scooping as much as we can. Our equipment seems to be in...

Backstory: Bought house with pool in January. Got it going good with yalls advise. I bought a stenner pump and a drum of chlorine. its been going good. I go on vacation last week, i thought i had plenty chlorine in the stenner but i was wrong. Got home saturday to a very green pool. I poured a...

I’m looking at using a light green finish and I liked what I’ve read about quartzscapes so far, wanting a smoother finish for young kids. Someone asked about this color in 2013 and didn’t get any bites so I wanted to see if anyone has used it since then and could talk about it or post some pictures.

New here. This is our fourth year with the pool, but this has been the most challenging year ever to get it clean and clear. We don't know what the heck is going on. I think we got behind on chlorine and are playing catch up. The pool has been cloudy with some green tint since opening it...

Hi all! Uncovered my pool I. May and it was almost clear but lots of leaves at the bottom. Winter cover had a rip in it. Filled to skimmer level and began to filter. Life got in the way and a week without attending to pool equals a greenish brown mess. There are so many little seeds, tree...

HI! Newbie here, I just filled my 15'x42" fast-set intex type pool with water. We live in the mountains of Honduras and the only water available to us is from a deep well. I filled the pool. Initial ph was under 6.8. I added the pool calculator's recommended amount of borax, then added...

Hello all, first post here. I’m a new member as well as a new (to me) pool owner. My wife and I just moved to Olive Branch, MS and the house we bought came with a 15,000gal in ground, SWG gunite pool. Over the last few weeks of winter when we moved in, I learned which pumps/ lines control which...

I’m a first time pool owner and my pool was super dark green after opening. I have an above ground 18’ round 4’ deep and I can’t see more than about a foot down into the water. I have tried manually vacuuming as much as I can from the bottom but it is hard to tell what I’m doing since I can’t...

Hello TFP, What an adventure. We had our pool re-plastered last year because the original plaster was starting to scrape our knees. The company we used plasters one day, leaves the pool dry overnight, and then acid washes the next day before filling it. Not sure I'm a fan of that, but it's...

I have had algae now for the past three weeks. No matter what I do it won’t go away. My levels are all good but still green water. I’m almost ready to just close it for this season. I did talk to my friend at the pool store and his only suggestion was maybe a bad cartridge in the filter but I...

Hi! So we just opened our pool 24 hours ago and despite winterizing, the pool was dark green. I started balancing chemicals and today I am getting pH 7.2 FC 5.6 CC 0.4 TA 70 Just added pH up. Water is cloudy, but blue with a hint of green. Shocked earlier this morning when pH was 7.4. Any...

Opened the pool to find an extreme case of algae build up. Got the water tested and results recommended adding15 oz. of Soda Ash, wait 24 hrs. then add 4 lbs of Hardness Plus every 4 hours for a total of 28 lbs. After 24 hours from final Hardness Plus application measured the water again. Ph...

Hey all, So I this is my first time closing AND opening in succession... 2 autumns ago I had a pool store close the pool, then in Spring I opened it to see fairly decent/clear water! I closed the pool myself last fall (withOUT polyquat) and this Spring is... a different story! (Noooooo!)...

I have a 22x52 above ground pool with a intex sand filter. I didn’t have it covered through the winter. I have scrubbed the floor/walls, got all the debris out I can, vacuumed the floor, and shocked it multiple times. The water started off dark green/brown. After shocking it, it turned cloudy...

My 72 year old (female) Friend had an algae problem caused by a broken pump motor and a lot of leaves. I replaced to broken motor, cleaned to DE Filter, got as many of the leaves out as possible without being able to see the bottom of the pool. I Shocked the pool and ran the pump until my...